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The Other Side of Sports
Dave Zirin
Are sports simply a form of entertainment or is there some deeper meaning off the field we are not seeing? From ancient Greece to modern times, sports have always been a big attraction. But in the cable and digital age it is bigger and more lucrative than ever. Sports encompass the world. From soccer in […]
Outsourcing the War on Terror
Pratap Chatterjee
When the U.S. goes to war, private contractors salivate. When it comes to making money, there is no business like war business. Control or oversight? Not much. There is a feeding frenzy at the troughs of public money accompanied by the almost inevitable cost overruns, waste, fraud and theft. The corruption is fueled by the […]
Faithful Peacemaking in a War-Making State
Daniel Berrigan
Berrigan outlines a grammar of dissent and calls for an ethical housecleaning of the “Just War” theory. Just War is invoked to give a moral and juridical guise to a war one intends to wage for reasons different than stated. When this happens, “We are called to be conscientious objectors to war,” and “put the […]
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Pablo Neruda
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (Alturas de Macchu Picchu) ranks with Neruda’s finest poems. Macchu Picchu, the Inca city high up in the Peruvian Andes is one of the most beautiful and astonishing archaeological sites in the world. Neruda went there and was inspired to write his epic poem. He breathes life into the ruins. […]
Brecht & HUAC
Sender Garlin
Bertolt Brecht of Germany is a major figure in 20th-century culture. He fled Hitler and settled in the U.S. at a time when the House UnAmerican Activities Committee was conducting political witch hunts. Anti-Communist hysteria gripped the U.S. Sender Garlin gives an overview of the political climate in the U.S. in the aftermath of WWII. […]
Remembering Well & Raising Hell
Martin Espada
If you’d ask most people, they’d rather stay at home and watch a Seinfeld rerun than go to a poetry reading. Yet almost imperceptibly poetry enriches our lives and generates cultural growth and change. Think about it. Add up all the myriad poetry-related activities: readings, workshops, symposia, retreats, undergraduate and MFA programs at universities, books, […]
Microcredit
Mohammad Yunus
Recorded at the University of Washington.
CIA Covert Operations
Bill Schaap
Interview by David Barsamian.
Dollarocracy
Robert McChesney, John Nichols
Dollarocracy: a system of government where private wealth determines political outcomes. Sound at all familiar? The corruption bred by boatloads of cash contaminates and pollutes our entire political process. So-called reforms won’t cure the ailment. Radical surgery is required. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this well when he counseled, “Timid supplications for justice will […]
Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
Richard Falk
Richard Falk delivers the 11th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Since Edward Said’s death in 2003 a number of institutions around the world have sponsored talks by renowned academics in his honor. This lecture is by Richard Falk. He says of Edward Said, that he “addresses the challenge of apparent defeat and the accompanying feelings of […]
1998 Z Media Institute Seminar
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs For several years each June, at Woods Hole on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the Z Media Institute (ZMI) was convened by Z Magazine to bring together media activists to network, learn new media skills and hear some of the most important voices on the progressive left. This is the first part of Chomsky’s […]
Power Systems Do Not Give Gifts
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Chomsky discusses early formative experiences and his attraction to anarchism and Rudolf Rocker. He talks about a range of issues from his first act of rebellion to Super Bowl ads to Israel. And as always deconstructing propaganda such as when he says, “Reform is like most political terms: you have to distinguish between […]

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